Re: [Enigmail] OpenPGP Support in Thunderbird 77.0b3

Patrick Brunschwig <[email protected]> Wed, 20 May 2020 16:57:40 +0200
Newsgroups	gmane.comp.mozilla.enigmail.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
Aisha Tammy via enigmail-users wrote on 20.05.2020 16:50:
> On 5/20/20 10:23 AM, Patrick Brunschwig wrote:
>> The Thunderbird developers have released the first beta version of
>> Thunderbird 77 that contains native support for OpenPGP emails. The
>> development has not yet finished; there are still itches and glitches,
>> but the basic functionality of encryption, decryption, signing and
>> verification of emails is there. The functionality is still considered
>> experimental; there are still known issues and white spots.
>>
> I am hoping you are one of the contributors to that. I would feel safer
> knowing something that has been working well is the precursor of a new 
> technology.

The implementation has started off from the existing Enigmail code, and
you can still see quite a bit of it. But certain things are obviously
new or different.

I did not contribute as a developer to what has been implemented/changed
in Thunderbird, but I was a reviewer for most of these changes.

>> Details are available from the following post:
>> https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/tb-planning/2020-May/007621.html
>>
>> Aligned with this release, I created a first beta version of
>> Enigmail 2.2. Enigmail 2.2 is a special release that serves one single
>> purpose: help users migrate their keys and settings from Enigmail/GnuPG
>> to Thunderbird -- nothing more.
>>
>> If you want to try Enigmail 2.2 Beta 1 along with Thunderbird 77 beta 3,
>> you can install it from here:
>> https://enigmail.net/download/nightly/enigmail-nightly-enigmail-2.2-branch-all.xpi
>>
> Also I hope this doesn't mean that Enigmail is going away anytime soon.
> I have quite a few things that I rely on enigmail for and really love it.

I will continue to support Enigmail for Thunderbird for at least 6
months after the release of TB 78. Depending on how many users will hold
back upgrading from TB 68, I might also extend that period. Furthermore,
I will continue to develop and maintain Enigmail for Postbox; likely for
several more years.

-Patrick

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